Clerihews
I seldom write "elfshadow"
But did you know
That she prefers a
lowercase "e" unless you write it "Elsha?"
A fire-kindler is Narya,
not as mighty as Vilya,
nor as clear as Nenya,
But warm and friendly to all ya.
The chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis
said, "all those other electrons are superfluous"
And then used dots to represent
the electrons in the outermost valence.
But did you know
That she prefers a
lowercase "e" unless you write it "Elsha?"
A fire-kindler is Narya,
not as mighty as Vilya,
nor as clear as Nenya,
But warm and friendly to all ya.
The chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis
said, "all those other electrons are superfluous"
And then used dots to represent
the electrons in the outermost valence.
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Mith, I agree with vison:
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Someone should give this floor a quick sweep. . . .
Oh, right.
<goes off to get broom>
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Very clever, Teremia! I'll have to come up with a good one for you, but I doubt I can beat that .
The new book by Miss Prim
will be as famous as Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH...
...or at least we all hope that's what's in store.
Then her autographs will be worth more.
What can we say about our precious Jewel?
She'd never call Ethel a fool,
She's daring enough to hop across the ocean
- for her friends, she's always in motion.
I always used to call vison "Vision"
but never earned any derision.
This is a lady who can take
things in stride. And bake!
The new book by Miss Prim
will be as famous as Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH...
...or at least we all hope that's what's in store.
Then her autographs will be worth more.
What can we say about our precious Jewel?
She'd never call Ethel a fool,
She's daring enough to hop across the ocean
- for her friends, she's always in motion.
I always used to call vison "Vision"
but never earned any derision.
This is a lady who can take
things in stride. And bake!
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My poem for Teremia
is long overdue. My excuse? I was hit by a hemi, a
cat stole my pen, and my fingers were amputated one by one...
Well, not really, but there are so few new excuses under the sun!
Not sure I can do any more of these....
I'd love to write a poem about Frodo,
and how he saved Middle Earth, with a little prod-o
from Gandalf.
But that story is long, and requires in the listener the patience of an elf.
Okay, so that doesn't work, but he only word I can think of that rhymes with "Frodo" is "d'oh!"
is long overdue. My excuse? I was hit by a hemi, a
cat stole my pen, and my fingers were amputated one by one...
Well, not really, but there are so few new excuses under the sun!
Not sure I can do any more of these....
I'd love to write a poem about Frodo,
and how he saved Middle Earth, with a little prod-o
from Gandalf.
But that story is long, and requires in the listener the patience of an elf.
Okay, so that doesn't work, but he only word I can think of that rhymes with "Frodo" is "d'oh!"
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Rhyming dictionary to the rescue! What, you don't have one?
Entries under O-do:
dodo
Frodo
quasimodo
If you just want to rhyme with the last "o", then the selection is much wider, including such useful words as adagio, ago, aglow, although, apropos, below, bestow, comme il faut, crow, death throe, dough, flow, foe, gazpacho, in flagrante delicto, know, low, messageboard ho, overthrow, plateau, rainbow, rondeau, undergo, Velcro, vertigo, Van Gogh, woe, and yo-yo.
OK, let's see you do a couplet with Frodo and each of those words.
Now sing thee of Frodo Ringbearer,
Who valiantly fought the great Terror
Without and within, he battled the Ring.
And finally in Mordor got rid of the thing.
I just noticed that at the front of the rhyming dictionary, there's a whole section on how to write good poetry. Perhaps I should read it.
Entries under O-do:
dodo
Frodo
quasimodo
If you just want to rhyme with the last "o", then the selection is much wider, including such useful words as adagio, ago, aglow, although, apropos, below, bestow, comme il faut, crow, death throe, dough, flow, foe, gazpacho, in flagrante delicto, know, low, messageboard ho, overthrow, plateau, rainbow, rondeau, undergo, Velcro, vertigo, Van Gogh, woe, and yo-yo.
OK, let's see you do a couplet with Frodo and each of those words.
Now sing thee of Frodo Ringbearer,
Who valiantly fought the great Terror
Without and within, he battled the Ring.
And finally in Mordor got rid of the thing.
I just noticed that at the front of the rhyming dictionary, there's a whole section on how to write good poetry. Perhaps I should read it.